May 2017 Volume 45 - 5
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Z NEWS MAY 2017 VOLUME 45 - 5 The Official Newsletter of Z Owners of Northern California Blackhawk Z Gathering Saturday, May 20, 2017 See Flyer on page 5 Datslocos Car Show/ Swap Meet Saturday, May 27, 2017 See Flyer on page 6 Beautiful ZDay in Atascadero By Ann Devor Northern California rocks! An estimated 1000 people ZCON Austin, Texas gathered in Atascadero, CA on Saturday, March 18 to see 170 Datsun and Nissan sports cars for Z Day California June 20-24, 2017 presented by SoCalZ and Fast Intentions. Northern California See Flyer on page 6 early Datsuns and Zs showed well with two ZONCers earning awards: Linda Williams, Second Place 280Z, for her unmodified light blue metallic pinstriped280Z ; and Rob Fuller of ZCar Garage, Best Sponsor Car, for Alex ZONC Annual Car Show M.’s right-hand drive 1973 Skyline GT. This low-slung sports car is frequently seen parked at Rob’s shop in San Jose. Also Saturday, July 22, 2017 walking away with top prizes were Matt A. and Curtis Lewis. JUNE ZNEWS & ZONC.ORG Matt, a loyal ZCG customer, won the top Best of Show prize (Continued on page 2) Page ~ 2 ~ Flying Start, Welcome, Profiles Wanted What’s inside . Page ~ 3 ~ Beautiful ZDay in Atascadero/The Drive Down Page ~ 8 ~ Mines Road/Patterson Spring Run Page ~ 4 ~ Beautiful ZDay in Atascadero Page ~ 9 ~ Mines Road/Patterson Spring Run Page ~ 5 ~ Blackhawk Z Gathering Flyer Page ~ 10 ~ A.F. Rallye Summary, Birthdays, Tracks, Ad Rates Page ~ 6 ~ ZCON Flyer & DATSLOCOS Flyer Page ~ 11 ~ Calendar, ZMart For Sale Ad, ZMart Ad Info. Page ~ 7 ~ Mines Road/Patterson Spring Run Page ~ 12~ Working For You & Area Reps Z News May 2017 Flying PLEASE WELCOME Start NEW ZONC MEMBERS ....... By Jason Green John Benton 280Z Michael Schrammel 300ZX Clear blue skies. Twisty roads. And good company. Those are Stephen Schrammel 300ZX the key ingredients for a memorable run. And, boy, did we have Eric Tagliaboschi 240Z them in spades on April 9. The Mines Road/Mount Hamilton/Patterson Spring run, Profiles Wanted organized by Andrea Ivan, brought together members of the Z Let your fellow ZONCERS get to know you better! Owners of Northern California and Datslocos California, Your ZNEWS is starting up the member profile again as well as a complement of cars old and new, ranging from Pat and asking all members who would like to write a short Johnson’s Datsun 1600 to my Nissan 370Z. profile about themselves and their car(s). I mentioned in last month’s column that it felt fantastic to You can write about the things you have done to your be back on the road when ZONC headed to the California car, the ZONC events you like to attend, when you joined Automobile Museum in Sacramento. But this run? This run was ZONC, or your hobbies other than ZONC. nirvana. Please hold your article to no more than one page. Starting in Livermore, our route took us south along scenic Also include a picture of yourself and your car and send Mines Road. We made a pit stop at The Junction to celebrate to the ZNEWS editor at [email protected]. Andrea’s Nissan 300ZX, otherwise known as Z-Mario, completing 330,000 miles on mostly original parts. Before long though, we were back on the road and zooming up Highway 130 toward Lick Beautiful ZDay in Atascadero (Continued from front page) Observatory, where it was cold enough for snow to linger. for his purring green and white 1972 510 coupe, sounding The views from the top of Mount Hamilton were just as thrilling sweet and smooth like no other; and Curtis won First Place as the drive. What’s more, some of us got a peek at one of the giant 370Z, for his ‘Scarlett.’ telescopes inside the more than century-old observatory. Everyone loved the new location for ZDay in front of The run continued from there, but I had to break off. The fun Atascadero’s beautiful City Hall. The classic building had been was far from over, though. For miles, I had the downward descent heavily damaged in the 2003 San Simeon earthquake, but is to San Jose all to myself. I savored every corner until a minivan now fully renovated and graced by spouting fountains at all decided to ruin the fun a few miles from town. But even then, a four corners. Zs with exotic body upgrades were strategically smile was plastered on my face. parked in front of the City Hall steps. Chris Forsberg’s crazy That’s two wildly successful events in the book for 2017, and there’s more to come. Next up is the Z Gathering at the Blackhawk Automotive Museum on May 20 (see flier on page 5). This was one of our more popular events last year and I expect this year’s to be no different. The ollowingf week, DATSLOCOS will hold its 13th annual car show and swap meet on May 27 at 934 Perimeter Drive in Manteca. The cost to enter a car in the show is $10. Given the support Datslocos has shown ZONC, it would be fantastic to see ZONC return the favor. Thanks for reading. See you on the road soon. (Continued on page 3) Page 2 www.ZONC.org Z News May 2017 Beautiful ZDay in Atascadero (Continued from page 2) 370Z drifter with rear air intake and radiator was prominently featured and Chris spoke to the crowd for a short while about his experiences creating his car and competing in the drift world. The ZDay car show stretched along both the north and south sides of City Hall and around a central park with a large Z Day 2017: The Drive Down By Moe Moscovitz fountain, big trees, green grass and plenty of park benches. Bill Hickman’s orange 240Z, Marshall Adams’ brown On a lovely early spring day, a small but spirited group of metallic 260Z, Linda’s 280Z and Matt A.’s 510 were some ZONC’ers met at the Windmill market in San Juan Bautista of the very few Datsuns to enter the show. Andrea Ivan’s for the drive down to Atascadero for Z Day 2017. cherry red ‘ZMario’ and Mo Moscovitz’s silver ‘1Z324Mo’ Bill Hickman brought his beautiful orange 240Z, while were parked in a line of stock to very modified Z32s on the the Z32 contingent was represented by Andrea Ivan and Mo northwest side of the parkway. But it was the south side of Moscovitz. the park that was packed with 350s, 370s and two GTRs. Marshall Adams and Bill Mstanich rolled through the Modifications of endless variety including outrageous paint, parking lot in their 260Z, but didn’t spot the rest of us and wheels and fenders, spoilers, splitters, hoods, hatches and went on ahead. Ann and Paul performed chase vehicle duties in their RAV 4 because Charlie, the Husky had a bad leg and couldn’t drive stick. (OK seriously, Charlie was recuperating from some leg surgery, and couldn’t be left alone). After a leisurely lunch and somewhat humorous driver’s meeting we headed south. Mo, who led initially, kept the others in his rear view, noticed that Bill was driving at a leisurely pace. We all found a rhythm and had a nice drive. About 75 miles into the journey, Mr. Hickman found his inner Bill, and in a flash of orange, flew by us all. Meanwhile, the lone Highway Patrolman we encountered was kept in abeyance by Ann, Paul, and Charlie. We stopped at the Camp Roberts rest area for a brief respite. There, in a “Twilight Zone” moment were Marshall and Bill. By that time, we were only 30 miles outside of Atascadero, so we all proceeded south to our motels, and met up later for dinner. (Continued on page 4) Page 3 www.ZONC.org Z News May 2017 Beautiful ZDay in Atascadero (Continued from page 3) mostly excellent engine work could be seen on these recent Z models. Vendor tents and a beer garden filled the area in front of the steps to City Hall. With a guy in a Godzilla costume and beautiful SoCalZ ladies walking around, it was like the Z circus was in town. And the weather was perfect, with morning fog clearing away for a warm afternoon. We hear that SoCalZ plans to put on another ZDay California next year. If you wanted to go but couldn’t make it, tough luck, but there should be another chance next year – don’t miss it! Page 4 www.ZONC.org ______________ Page 5 www.ZONC.org Z News May 2017 ________ ________ Page 6 www.ZONC.org Z News May 2017 MINES ROAD/PATTERSON SPRING RUN this ride, and she told me she was going to plan a champagne By ZMario (as told to owner Andrea Ivan) celebration for this momentous occasion! I could not help Photos by Ann Devor, Jason Green, and Geno Guillen but hope she could control herself from driving me too much Finally, after all these years of transporting my energetic, beforehand, so I could hit this mileage point at the Junction, crazy triathlete owner and her bike to the base of this climb which I had never been to, but she has talked about with she is forever raving about, I got to do it too! And not only did great affection over the years. I finally get to do that climb but I got to ride over a few other When we got to the meeting place, there were lots of Zs! roads of other bike rides she has done while I am patiently 240s and one other 300ZX like me, but this one was older waiting in some parking lot in Patterson or Pleasanton for than me! Some I had met before, and this new group showed her to finish! up that I had heard about.